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Hello Tumblr. I haven’t been on here in over two years. But I might get on again. I have a full time job now and a cat. I’m currently dating someone. I started going to spiritual direction. I was on tumblr because I found hope in this community. I miss the hope and the learning about new and exciting things. We will see how this ride goes.
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Photos of Mom and Daughters in Matching Outfits Capture Their Unspoken Bond
“Essential to every aspect of a church building is beauty…Because the church building is a reflection of God, Himself, Who is utterly beautiful… The experience of truly sacred architecture in this world should be a foretaste of the beauty we hope to experience in the life to come.” - Fr. David Friel
“The compelling effect of a traditional church is to say to the believer, you are in Heaven now.“ - Msgr. Charles Pope
Today is the Feast of the Visitation commemorating the visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin St. Elizabeth.
The above image was painted by Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS
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Do you know why the rose is Mary’s flower???
Because from Christ’s Crown of Thorns, Mary was able to bloom into the Queen of Heaven.
A reminder of lists every Catholic Should be Familiar With
The 7 Sacraments (The Holy Mysteries) 1.Baptism 2.Confirmation (Chrismation) 3.Eucharist 4.Penance (Confession, Reconciliation) 5.Matrimony 6.Holy Orders 7.Extreme Unction (Annointing of the Sick
The 7 Corporal Works of Mercy 1.To feed the hungry 2.To give drink to the thirsty 3.To clothe the naked 4.To shelter the homeless 5.To visit the sick 6.To visit the imprisoned 7.To bury the dead
The 7 Spiritual Works of Mercy 1.To counsel the doubtful 2.To instruct the ignorant 3.To admonish the sinner 4.To comfort the sorrowful 5.To forgive all injuries 6.To bear wrongs patiently 7.To pray for the living and the dead
The 3 Eminent Good Works 1.Prayer 2.Fasting 3.Almsgiving
The 7 Gifts of the Holy Ghost 1.Wisdom 2.Understanding 3.Counsel 4.Fortitude 5.Knowledge 6.Piety 7.Fear of the Lord
Class of Gifts of the Holy Ghost known as Charismata 1.Gift of speaking with wisdom 2.Gift of speaking with knowledge 3.Faith 4.Grace of healing 5.Gift of miracles 6.Gift of prophecy 7.Gift of discerning spirits 8.Gift of tongues 9.Gift of interpreting speeches
The 12 Fruits of the Holy Ghost 1.Charity 2.Joy 3.Peace 4.Patience 5.Benignity 6.Goodness 7.Longanimity 8.Mildness 9.Faith 10.Modesty 11.Continency 12.Chastity
The 3 Theological Virtues 1.Faith 2.Hope 3.Charity
The 4 Cardinal Virtues 1.Prudence 2.Justice 3.Fortitude 4.Temperance
The 7 Capital Sins 1.Pride 2.Greed 3.Lust 4.Anger 5.Gluttony 6.Envy 7.Sloth
The 6 Sins against the Holy Ghost 1.Presumption 2.Despair 3.Resisting the known truth 4.Envy of another’s spiritual good 5.Obstinacy in sin 6.Final impenitence
The 4 Sins that Cry Out to Heaven 1.Willful murder 2.The sin of Sodom 3.Oppression of the poor 4.Defrauding laborers of their wages
Conditions for Mortal Sin 1.Grave matter 2.Full knowledge 3.Deliberate consent
The 9 Ways We Participate in Others’ Sins 1.By counsel 2.By command 3.By consent 4.By provocation 5.By praise or flattery 6.By concealment 7.By partaking 8.By silence 9.By defense of the ill done
The 10 Commandments 1.Thou shalt not have other gods besides Me 2.Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain 3.Remember to keep holy the Lord’s day 4.Honor thy father and thy mother 5.Thou shalt not murder 6.Thou shalt not commit adultery 7.Thou shalt not steal 8.Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor 9.Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife 10.Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods
The 2 Greatest Commandments 1.To love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind and strength. 2.To love thy neighbor as thyself.
The 3 Evangelical Counsels 1.Voluntary poverty 2.Perpetual chastity 3.Entire obedience.
The 6 Precepts of the Church (The Duties of a Catholic) 1.To go to Mass and refrain from servile work on Sundays and holy days 2.To go to Confession at least once a year (traditionally done during Lent) 3.To receive the Eucharist at least once a year, during the Easter Season (known as the “Easter duty”) 4.To observe the days of fasting and abstinence 5.To help to provide for the needs of the Church according to one’s abilities and station in life 6.To obey the marriage laws of the Church
The 3 Powers of the Soul 1.Memory 2.Intellect 3.Will
The 4 Pillars of the Catholic Faith 1.The Apostles Creed 2.The Seven Sacraments 3.The Ten Commandments 4.The Lord’s Prayer
The 3 Pillars of the Church’s Authority 1.Sacred Scripture 2.Sacred Tradition 3.Living Magisterium
The 3 Munera (Duties of the Ordained) 1.Munus docendi (duty to teach, based on Christ’s role as Prophet) 2.Munus sanctificandi (duty to sanctify, based on Chris’s role as Priest) 3.Munus regendi (duty to shepherd, based on Christ’s role as King)
The 3 Parts of the Church 1.The Church Militant (Christians on Earth) 2.The Church Suffering (Christians in Purgatory) 3.The Church Triumphant (Christians in Heaven)
The 4 Marks of the Church 1.Unity 2.Sanctity 3.Catholicity 4.Apostolicity
The 12 Tribes of Israel In order of their birth: 1.Reuben 2.Simeon 3.Levi 4.Judah 5.Zabulon 6.Issachar 7.Dan 8.Gad 9.Asher 10.Naphtali 11.Joseph (Menasseh and Ephraim) 12.Benjamin
The 8 Beatitudes 1.Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. 2.Blessed are the meek: for they shall posses the land. 3.Blessed are they who mourn: for they shall be comforted 4.Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill 5.Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy 6.Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God 7.Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called children of God 8.Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven
The 14 Stations of the Cross 1.Jesus is Condemned to Die 2.Jesus is Made to Bear His Cross 3.Jesus Falls the First Time 4.Jesus Meets His Mother 5.Simon Helps Jesus Carry His Cross 6.Veronica Wipes Jesus’ Face 7.Jesus Falls the Second Time 8.Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem 9.Jesus Falls the Third Time 10.Jesus is Stripped 11.Jesus is Nailed to the Cross 12.Jesus Dies on the Cross 13.Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross 14.Jesus is Laid in the Tomb
The 15 Mysteries of the Holy Rosary & When They are Prayed
Joyful: 1.Annunciation 2.Visitation 3.Nativity 4.Presentation 5.Finding Jesus in the Temple
Sorrowful: 1.Agony in the Garden 2.The Scourging 3.Crowning with thorns 4.Carrying of the Cross 5.Crucifixion Luminous. 1. Baptism of Jesus. 2. Manifestation of Jesus at the wedding feast of Cana. 3. Proclamation of the kingdom of God. 4. The Transfiguration. 5. The institution of the Holy Eucharist Glorious: 1.Resurrection 2.Ascension 3.Pentecost 4.Assumption 5.Crowning of Mary
Mondays: Joyful Tuesdays: Sorrowful Wednesdays:Glorious Thursdays: Joyful Fridays: Sorrowful Saturdays: Glorious Sundays in Advent, Christmastide & Epiphany: Joyful Sundays in Eastertide & Time After Pentecost:Glorious All of Septuagesima & Lent: Sorrowful
The 9 Choirs of Angels In ascending order: 1.Angels 2.Archangels 3.Principalities 4.Powers 5.Virtues 6.Dominions 7.Thrones 8.Cherubim 9.Seraphim
The 3 Levels of Reverence 1.Dulia:the reverence we give to Saints 2.Hyperdulia:the reverence we give to Mary as the greatest of Saints and Mother of God 3.Latria:the reverence and worship we give to God alone
The 14 Holy Helpers 1.St. George, Martyr, April 23 2.St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr, February 3 3.St. Pantaleon, Martyr, July 27 4.St. Vitus, Martyr, June 15 5.St. Erasmus (Elmo), Bishop and Martyr, June 2 6.St. Christopher, Martyr, July 25 7.St. Giles, Abbot, September 1 8.St. Cyriacus (Cyriac), Martyr, August 8 9.St. Achatius, Martyr, May 8 10.St. Dionysius (Denis), Bishop and Martyr, October 9 11.St. Eustachius (Eustace), Martyr, September 20 12.St. Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin and Martyr, November 25 13.St. Margaret of Antioch, Virgin and Martyr, July 20 14.St. Barbara, Virgin and Martyr, December 4
The 7 Last Words of Christ 1.Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. (Luke 23:34) 2.Amen I say to thee: This day thou shalt be with me in paradise. (Luke 23:43) 3.Woman, behold thy son… .Behold thy mother. (John 19:26-27) 4.Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? (My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?) (Matthew 27:46, ref. Psalm 21) 5.I thirst. (John 19:28) 6.It is consummated.(John 19:30) 7.Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit. (Luke 23:46, ref. Psalm 30:6)
The 4 Last Things (The Novissima) 1.Death 2.Judgement 3.Heaven 4.Hell
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I was at the zoo the other day and there was this fucking goose trying to act likE A FUCKING FLAMINGO
this made my day its so adorable
This reminds me of one of my favorite conservation stories!!
When they were trying to bring Puffins back to islands on the US east coast they decided to do so with dummies. Puffins are very social, and as a result would want to land on islands that already have puffins. The dummies looked real from a distance, but were seriously lacking up close, held up by a single peg. Puffins, being social and wanting to fit in, followed suit:
This is pretty adorable.
Okay non-European tumblr, I’m gonna explain to you why ‘white’ isn’t as simple here as it is in the rest of the world
- Shades of white in Europe range from ‘freshly fallen snow’ to ‘I am frequently mistaken as being from the Middle East’
- White European is a thing. When you fill out a form, under ethnicity, there are several options for white; white British, white European, white other. Because people make that distinction
- There are Europeans who don’t class their ethnicity as their skin colour, but as their nationality. I have family who don’t think of themselves as white, they just think of themselves as Italian and don’t really give much thought to their skin colour
- People here in Britain always question if darker skinned white Europeans are ‘actually white’. I get it a lot myself. My response is always ‘well I’m not anything else, so obviously I must be’
- Despite being white, a lot of Europeans from Italy, Greece, Spain etc, don’t feel white in the traditional sense. We’re not white like white British people. We’re not white like white Americans. We’re our own white. White British is one thing. White Italian is another thing. White Greek is another, etc
- Which is why we have this notion here in Europe of ‘nationality over race’. Being white isn’t as important as where you’re from
- So this really only becomes an issue if you’re an immigrant
- So being white in Europe doesn’t save you from racial discrimination, because sure, you’re technically white, but you’re not white white. Not the right white
- Here in England, Europeans with really blatantly foreign names, such as myself, find it more difficult to get job interviews, because they take one look at our name and don’t bother reading the rest of the CV. A guy I know was actually told by his boss to reduce the pile of CVs he had by ‘chucking away any with a name you can’t fucking pronounce’
- And then even when you do get an interview, half the time you walk into the joint several shades darker than everyone else and feel like you’ve walked into the ‘Swedish supermodel’ clubhouse and you just know you’re not getting hired
This is all basic stuff and it’s very much taken for granted here. Race and ethnicity are not as clear cut, so it can be very confusing for non-Europeans to wrap their heads around. Which is fine. But I implore you to stay in your lane, because when you say things like ‘no white person anywhere in the world ever knows what it’s like to face racial discrimination’, it’s really fucking offensive to all of the European immigrants who are denied jobs, harassed by the police and beaten by racists, because foreign is foreign to these people, and they don’t give a shit if you’re technically white. So when you mean white American, say white American.
This doesn’t just apply to “darker skin” Europeans either (which I’m sure some Americans would argue are POC for some reason or other). Try being slavic in Western Europe. Hell, try being Sinti or Roma in any part of Europe.
Especially in the UK you can be as white as you like but if you aren’t from Britain (or in some cases just England) then you face discrimination. It really isn’t that clear cut in Europe and it drives me mad when people say white people can’t experience racism because that’s such a US-centric idea.
And if you’re from anywhere in South-East Europe then you should prepare for your country to be slandered in every UK paper. Seriously, you can’t turn on the news, go on the internet, read a newspaper, without being told how Romanian, Ukrainian, Polish people are a drain on the UK’s resources and they should be banned from the country. And guess what?
(That’s Mila Kunis. She was born in the Ukraine.)
(Sebastian Stan. From Constanta, Romania.)
(Mia Wasikowska, from Poland)
(Nina Dobrev, who was born in Bulgaria.)
They are white! Just because they are white, it doesn’t mean people from their countries cannot face horrible discrimination, and it doesn’t mean that they can’t be constantly told that they don’t work as hard as people from Western Europe, and that they don’t deserve basic human rights.
So just before you force your ignorance onto people who don’t hold the same views as you due to where they live operating in a different way, just remember that not everybody lives in America.
Here it is guys, the post that finally puts what I’ve been trying to say for far too long into words!
…I didn’t know Sebastian Stan was Romanian.
But as somebody who has lived in England and the US, I can vouch for all of this. The race issues in Europe and the race issues in the US are not the same.
For the last few years, there has been an awful backlash against immigrants from Poland, with some of the same language used that Americans use about “Mexicans” (By which, half the time, they mean anyone from south of the US/Mexico border).
It’s worth understanding that
1. Racism and discrimination are everywhere.
2. They don’t take the same form everywhere.
I have lived in England for over 10 years now, and can confirm all of the above. As soon as I open my mouth people can tell, of course, that I was not born and raised British.
I was yelled at in the street because a lady thought I was Polish. People have pushed their chairs into my parents and insulted them in a restaurant because they were recognised as Germans.
Being white is not that cut and dry over here.
And being “socially” white as opposed to just pale skinned evolves over time. I mean, there have been times in America when Irish and Italian people have not been considered “white”.
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I’m American and this is the FIRST time I’ve ever heard any of this. I always think I’m up to date on world issues but wow I am not. Thank you to everyone for sharing!
About discrimination between nations in Europe, speaking Finnish and Sami languages in schools in Sweden was forbidden from students because Finns and Sami people were considered to be the lower race. Of course Europe has racism against black people, but yes, thinking about Europeans being “white” as whole is weird because a white Finn and a white Greek person couldn’t be more apart with their cultures.
Yes, all of this, and let’s not forget people like the Finnish speaking Finns have historically and from some cultural standpoints a lot more common with native Americans and the Asians and Blacks in America than white Americans, despite our recent “rise” in the social rank of race.
Less than 100 years ago we were considered mongoloid (and while it’s not entirely wrong, though Uralic or North-West Asian and Caucasian mix would be lot more accurate), and were oppressed by another nation (Russia) that tried to enforce cultural and linguistic genocide on us, and before that we were oppressed and practically enslaved by Sweden, not all that differently as in any other colonized nation–which we were for 800 years.
For all intents and purposes, our “whites” are the Swedish-speaking Finns, who to this day continue to be a lot more privileged than the Finnish-speaking Finns, on average.
In Italy, Southern people are considered less than Northern people and I, as a Northern people, can assure you sometimes it’s pretty bad. Mostly thanks to an idiotic right wing party that thinks that Italy should be divided in two: over the Po and below the Po (our longest river). They even think our ancestors are Celts lmao. Also a lot of people from the South are “less white” (again it’s stupid but whatever it’s just to make you understand), because they have ancestors from Africa so they are mixed, therefore their skin isn’t white as snow.
Reblogging, because it’s SO important! Tumblr is super-US focused and the US reality is predominant here. I remember a conversation in London, about my Polish friend living these since the eighties, a talented artist with works in Tate Modern and an art-school professor: “oh, Andrew is absolutely brilliant, too bad he doesn’t have the right accent”. This was said very sincerely by am Irish academic, who did not have the right accent either.
BTW, UK, after you get rid of the Poles and Romanians and Ukrainians and other pesky Eastern-Europeans, who will work on your construction sites and keep your houses from falling apart, and keep them clean?
In the 1980s, Leslie Carol Botha taught basic fertility charting to 13-17 year-olds at eight different restorative care homes for at-risk girls. A typical girl in the program had been a victim of sexual assault, ran away from home, used drugs and alcohol and ended up in jail. In working with these girls, Ms. Botha made an amazing discovery: teens who chart can regain control of their life.
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if you think you are unattractive just remember you look like your ancestors and hey all of them got laid
but what if you were adopted
I’m not up on the whole genetics thing
but
if you’re adopted you still have to have biological ancestors right
Bhahahhahaha. This is great.
These cuts aren’t about cost savings — they’re far too small to make even a ding in the federal budget. They are carefully calculated attacks on communities, especially those that promote independent thinking and expression, or didn’t line up behind the Trump movement as it swept to power through the electoral college in November. But the president’s proposed budget also includes attacks on communities that did indeed support Trump but that are too powerless to resist. Among the independent agencies set for elimination: the Appalachian Regional Commission, which supports things such as job training, economic diversification (including the arts), tourism initiatives and Internet access in states like West Virginia, Alabama and Kentucky.
From our art critic Philip Kennicott: It’s not an attack on the arts, it’s an attack on communities
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I'm very upset with the current political climate. We are nothing if we do not take care of the poor.
